Man or Machine?

Ray Kurzweil on how long it will be before computers can do everything the brain can do

At Wall Street Journal's CFO, Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray talks with Ray Kurzweil on the modification of life and implementation of the merging for technology and humans.

June 29, 2012

Inventor and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil is a pioneer in artificial intelligence—the principal developer of the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and the first text-to-speech synthesizer, among other breakthroughs. He is also a writer who explores the future of information technology and how it is changing our world.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr. Kurzweil and The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray discussed advances in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and what it means to be human. Here are edited...